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I have to install one tool on linux platform which have tar.uue (genscanlinux.tar.uue) extension. I am unable to unzip it. Kindly tell me how can i unzip and install it? Thanks in advance :)

bioinformatician
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  • ZIP archives generally have the .zip extension. Searching for ".uue" hints that it's not a ZIP archive, and will mention the decoding tool as answered by @Jaguar. (You can use this for identifying other unknown file extensions as well) – Piskvor left the building May 18 '12 at 06:42
  • Thankyou Piskvor, i didnt know decoding system in files other than zip. – bioinformatician May 18 '12 at 08:18

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To decode a file with .uue extension use the following command:

uudecode genscanlinux.tar.uue

after this you will get genscanlinux.tar. You can unzip it using this command:

tar -zxvf genscanlinux.tar

After this you will get extracted file in the current directory.
Hope this will help.

Jainendra
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    Thanks Jaguar for providing me solution. I run uudecode command on my fedora14 , it first asked me to install "sharutils". I installed it and than uudecode able to decode it. – bioinformatician May 18 '12 at 08:16